What is trust accounting?

Trust accounts hold client funds that haven't been earned yet (retainers, advance cost deposits). IOLTA compliance requires these to be kept separate from firm operating funds. The system maintains a separate ledger per matter and prevents withdrawals that would overdraw the trust balance.

How does the conflict of interest check work?

When opening a new matter, the system searches all existing matters, clients, and adverse parties for any name match. Potential conflicts are flagged for the conflict clearance team to review before the matter is accepted.

What is the realization rate?

Realization rate is the percentage of billed time that is actually collected (collected / billed × 100%). A low rate indicates write-downs at billing or collection problems. The dashboard shows realization by attorney and practice group.

Legal & Compliance

Build a Legal Practice Management System with AI - in Hours

ProjectCode generates a complete, production-ready Legal Practice Management System from a single natural language prompt. In hours instead of months, you get a React frontend, NestJS REST API, PostgreSQL database, and authentication - fully integrated, live-previewed, and deployed to a URL you own.

Estimated build time: 4–6 hours

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The Challenge

Why building a Legal from scratch is hard

Building a Legal Practice Management System from scratch requires months of development time and significant engineering resources. Teams struggle to coordinate frontend, backend, database, and authentication while managing legal-specific business logic, integrations, and role-based access rules.

What's Included

Everything your Legal needs

ProjectCode generates a production-ready Legal with all the modules your team needs from day one.

Matter management with client, case type, and team assignment

Time tracking and billable hour logging

Legal document management with version control and e-signature

Court deadline and statute of limitations calendar

Client portal for secure document sharing and status updates

Invoice generation from time entries with trust accounting

Conflict of interest check on new matters

Practice analytics: realization rate, utilization, WIP value

Architecture

How it's built

The generated Legal follows production-grade architecture patterns.

React 18 + TypeScript frontend with role-based dashboards tailored for legal workflows

NestJS REST API with dedicated legal modules, DTOs, validators, and service layer

PostgreSQL relational schema with normalized tables for all legal entities

JWT + Google OAuth authentication with granular permission gates per role

Real-time Socket.IO events for live legal status updates and notifications

Managed hosting with one-click deploy, custom domain, and auto-SSL

Database

PostgreSQL schema designed for Legal

ProjectCode generates a normalized, indexed PostgreSQL schema with the right tables and relationships for your use case. You own the schema and can evolve it freely.

matters (id, client_id, title, type, status, open_date, close_date, responsible_attorney_id, budget, workspace_id)
time_entries (id, matter_id, user_id, date, hours, billing_rate, amount, description, status, invoice_id)
legal_documents (id, matter_id, title, type, version, storage_url, signed_at, signers jsonb, created_by)
invoices (id, matter_id, client_id, period, line_items jsonb, subtotal, discount, tax, total, status, paid_at)

schema.sql (preview)

-- Generated by ProjectCode
-- Legal Practice Management System schema

CREATE TABLE matters__id (
  id UUID PRIMARY KEY DEFAULT gen_random_uuid(),
  created_at TIMESTAMPTZ DEFAULT NOW(),
  updated_at TIMESTAMPTZ DEFAULT NOW()
  -- ... auto-generated columns
);

CREATE TABLE time_entries__id (
  id UUID PRIMARY KEY DEFAULT gen_random_uuid(),
  created_at TIMESTAMPTZ DEFAULT NOW(),
  updated_at TIMESTAMPTZ DEFAULT NOW()
  -- ... auto-generated columns
);

CREATE TABLE legal_documents__id (
  id UUID PRIMARY KEY DEFAULT gen_random_uuid(),
  created_at TIMESTAMPTZ DEFAULT NOW(),
  updated_at TIMESTAMPTZ DEFAULT NOW()
  -- ... auto-generated columns
);

CREATE TABLE invoices__id (
  id UUID PRIMARY KEY DEFAULT gen_random_uuid(),
  created_at TIMESTAMPTZ DEFAULT NOW(),
  updated_at TIMESTAMPTZ DEFAULT NOW()
  -- ... auto-generated columns
);

Tech Stack

Production-ready from day one

Every generated app uses a battle-tested stack you can deploy anywhere and own completely.

Frontend

React 18 + TypeScript + Tailwind CSS

Backend

NestJS 10 + Node.js + TypeScript

Database

PostgreSQL (managed or Supabase)

Auth

Email OTP · Google OAuth · GitHub OAuth

Deployment

Managed hosting · Custom domain · Auto-SSL

AI Models

Claude Sonnet · Claude Opus · Kimi

Try It Now

Example prompt to get started

Copy this prompt into ProjectCode and get a working app in minutes.

ProjectCode prompt

Build a legal practice management system for a 30-attorney law firm. Include matter management with client and team assignment, time tracking with billable/non-billable codes and multiple billing rates, legal document management with version history and DocuSign integration, a court deadline calendar with statute-of-limitations reminders, a client portal for secure document sharing, invoice generation from time entries with trust account tracking (IOLTA compliance), conflict of interest checks on new matters, and a practice analytics dashboard showing realization rate, utilization by attorney, and WIP value by practice area.

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Deployment

Deploy your Legal anywhere

Managed hosting

One-click deploy to a live URL managed by ProjectCode.

Custom domain

Connect your own domain with auto-provisioned SSL via Cloudflare.

GitHub export

Push to your GitHub repo and self-host or deploy via Vercel, Railway, or AWS.

Docker ready

Export a Dockerfile and docker-compose for any containerized environment.

Pricing

Start free, scale as you grow

No per-seat fees. No vendor lock-in. Token-based pricing that scales with your usage.

Free

Start building your first app. Live preview, managed hosting, and full code export included.

Token Packs

From $5

Purchase token packs that roll over every month. Build more, pay only for what you use.

Enterprise

Custom

Custom models, SLA, SSO, and private cloud deployment for large teams.

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FAQ

Common questions about building a Legal

A matter is a legal case or project. Each matter belongs to a client and has a type (litigation, corporate, real estate), a status (active, closed), and an assigned attorney and team. All time, documents, and billing is tracked at the matter level.

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